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Daniel Keyes is best known for "Flowers for Algernon", which won a 1960 Hugo for its original novelette version. It was expanded to the novel Flowers for Algernon (1966) and in that form tied for the Nebula Award in 1967.

Later works include the quasi-SF thriller The Touch (1968; UK 1977 as The Contaminated Man), and The Fifth Sally (1980). Nonfiction works include The Minds of Billy Milligan (1982), a sequel to which has appeared in Japan as The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel (1994).

The sequel will be published in the US by Bantam when the film version of the first book appears from Warner, as The Crowded Room.

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"Flowers for Algernon has been published in about 30 countries, and each year I'm getting new foreign translations, and deals for reprints. [It] is still in print in both hardcover and paperback, and studied in high schools all across the country.

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